A presente pesquisa se estabelece junto a um processo investigativo que inter-relaciona prática artística e produção textual. Consiste na reflexão produzida a partir da realização de três proposições no campo da intervenção urbana desenvolvidas entre 2013 e 2015 nas cidades de Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE e Caxias do Sul/RS. Toma como fio condutor a análise de trabalhos instaurados a partir de e em relação a monumentos públicos e equipamentos urbanos associados a imagens e objetos cotidianos. Ao se inscreverem no espaço público, essas práticas artísticas evidenciam problemáticas específicas desse lugar atravessado por diversos agenciamentos e tensões e que demanda constantes reelaborações de métodos e de posicionamentos pelo artista-pesquisador. Compreendidos como ações-dispositivo, esses trabalhos se propõem como ações políticas ao evidenciar a importância das formas de inserção contextual e das relações estabelecidas entre público e obra em práticas de intervenção urbana. Como desdobramento, a análise aborda questões relacionadas ao estatuto da imagem fotográfica enquanto registro processual que articula noções de obra e documento. / This research is established as an investigation process that relates artistic practice and textual production. It consists of a reflection upon three propositions on the field of urban intervention that were developed between 2013 and 2015 in the cities of Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE and Caxias do Sul/RS. Its core is the analysis of works that are made on and in relation to public monuments and urban equipments associated to images and everyday objects. When inscribed in the public space, these artistic practices make evident some specific typical problems of this space, which is crossed by various kinds of intermediations and tensions. It demands, therefore, constant changes in methods and position takings by the artist-researcher. Understood as device-actions, these works are political actions for their capacity of making evident the importance of contextual insertion ways and of the relations established between the public and works in urban interventions. As a consequence, the analysis brings up questions related to the statute of the image as a processual register that links the notions of work and document.

The dissertation thesis gives a real picture of Czech artistic works from late 1980s to the present day that use the language of Conceptual and Action art for a reflection of current problems in our society. The study is to encompass socially-oriented art or tendencies that want to communicate with the inartistic context and its focus is on the social-political aspect of contemporary art. The first part of the text is focused on basic concepts, moreover, it describes the most important exhibitions, theoretical contexts or considerations associated with the concepts of political or engaged art and it includes a brief reference to examples of older socially oriented art of the 20th century. The thesis strives to give a picture of the main themes through which artists reflect on humanity within a current societal system with its various old or new phenomena. The topics and the particular relevant artworks are described in four main chapters that should reveal the working methods or the development of the artists approach or strategies of artistic groups that have simultaneously reflected changes in the Czech art scene for the past 25 years. The prime motives are classical or newborn topics like reflection on motherhood, transformation of the present-day family, attitudes to the phenomenon of age,...

A presente pesquisa se estabelece junto a um processo investigativo que inter-relaciona prática artística e produção textual. Consiste na reflexão produzida a partir da realização de três proposições no campo da intervenção urbana desenvolvidas entre 2013 e 2015 nas cidades de Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE e Caxias do Sul/RS. Toma como fio condutor a análise de trabalhos instaurados a partir de e em relação a monumentos públicos e equipamentos urbanos associados a imagens e objetos cotidianos. Ao se inscreverem no espaço público, essas práticas artísticas evidenciam problemáticas específicas desse lugar atravessado por diversos agenciamentos e tensões e que demanda constantes reelaborações de métodos e de posicionamentos pelo artista-pesquisador. Compreendidos como ações-dispositivo, esses trabalhos se propõem como ações políticas ao evidenciar a importância das formas de inserção contextual e das relações estabelecidas entre público e obra em práticas de intervenção urbana. Como desdobramento, a análise aborda questões relacionadas ao estatuto da imagem fotográfica enquanto registro processual que articula noções de obra e documento. / This research is established as an investigation process that relates artistic practice and textual production. It consists of a reflection upon three propositions on the field of urban intervention that were developed between 2013 and 2015 in the cities of Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE and Caxias do Sul/RS. Its core is the analysis of works that are made on and in relation to public monuments and urban equipments associated to images and everyday objects. When inscribed in the public space, these artistic practices make evident some specific typical problems of this space, which is crossed by various kinds of intermediations and tensions. It demands, therefore, constant changes in methods and position takings by the artist-researcher. Understood as device-actions, these works are political actions for their capacity of making evident the importance of contextual insertion ways and of the relations established between the public and works in urban interventions. As a consequence, the analysis brings up questions related to the statute of the image as a processual register that links the notions of work and document.

A presente pesquisa se estabelece junto a um processo investigativo que inter-relaciona prática artística e produção textual. Consiste na reflexão produzida a partir da realização de três proposições no campo da intervenção urbana desenvolvidas entre 2013 e 2015 nas cidades de Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE e Caxias do Sul/RS. Toma como fio condutor a análise de trabalhos instaurados a partir de e em relação a monumentos públicos e equipamentos urbanos associados a imagens e objetos cotidianos. Ao se inscreverem no espaço público, essas práticas artísticas evidenciam problemáticas específicas desse lugar atravessado por diversos agenciamentos e tensões e que demanda constantes reelaborações de métodos e de posicionamentos pelo artista-pesquisador. Compreendidos como ações-dispositivo, esses trabalhos se propõem como ações políticas ao evidenciar a importância das formas de inserção contextual e das relações estabelecidas entre público e obra em práticas de intervenção urbana. Como desdobramento, a análise aborda questões relacionadas ao estatuto da imagem fotográfica enquanto registro processual que articula noções de obra e documento. / This research is established as an investigation process that relates artistic practice and textual production. It consists of a reflection upon three propositions on the field of urban intervention that were developed between 2013 and 2015 in the cities of Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE and Caxias do Sul/RS. Its core is the analysis of works that are made on and in relation to public monuments and urban equipments associated to images and everyday objects. When inscribed in the public space, these artistic practices make evident some specific typical problems of this space, which is crossed by various kinds of intermediations and tensions. It demands, therefore, constant changes in methods and position takings by the artist-researcher. Understood as device-actions, these works are political actions for their capacity of making evident the importance of contextual insertion ways and of the relations established between the public and works in urban interventions. As a consequence, the analysis brings up questions related to the statute of the image as a processual register that links the notions of work and document.

O livro Canto general, de Pablo Neruda, é uma das mais importantes obras poéticas do século XX. Escrito em plena Guerra Fria, almeja abordar a totalidade do continente americano sob a égide do engajamento político de seu autor, importante militante do Partido Comunista à época da composição da obra. Este trabalho pretende discutir as escolhas feitas pelo autor quanto à politização de sua poesia e suas consequências estéticas e políticas, com particular interesse no processo de mitificação da História e das lutas sociais operado por Neruda em seu livro. Para tanto, a análise dos poemas busca integrar em uma só leitura a ponderação dos elementos míticos mobilizados pelo autor e sua interação com a mensagem ideológica e política explícita na obra, caracterizando o conjunto de Canto general como um exemplo de arte de intervenção. A análise se completa na leitura de Alturas de Macchu Picchu, principal conjunto de poemas do livro e considerado a melhor chave para entender a particular conjunção entre mito e política na obra do poeta chileno. / Pablo Nerudas Canto General is one of the most important poetic works of the twentieth century. Written during the Cold War, aims to cover the entirety of the American Continent under the influence of the political engagement of its author, who was an important member of the Communist Party at the time of the works composition. This dissertation discusses the choices made by the author regarding the politicization of his poetry and its aesthetic and political consequences, with particular interest in the mythologizing of history and of social struggles operated by Neruda in his book. For this purpose, the analysis of poems seeks to integrate into the reading the reflection about mythical elements mobilized by the author and his interaction with the ideological and political message explicit in the work, characterizing Canto General as an example of interventionist art. The analysis is completed with the reading of The Heights of Macchu Picchu, the main section of poems in the book, considered by many the best key to understand the particular conjunction between myth and politics in the work of the Chilean poet.

The phenomenon of culture jamming is not so well known in the Czech Republic. So I decided to focus on defining this term, which is sometimes translated as cultural sabotage. At the beginning of this dissertation work, I try to introduce important theories that are related to the central concept. I also focus on how culture jamming most often express and what forms are most common. In the part of examples of culture jamming in the world, I try to describe the important foreign culture jamming's groups, including demonstrations of their actions and performances. In the same way I map the Czech culture jamming groups. For a better illustration and approximation of the concept, the whole of this theoretical part is supplemented with a picture attachment. Part of the dissertation work is also a research part, which focuses on the mapping of culture jamming in the Czech Republic. Above all, I try to find out what are the motivations, speeches and goals of Czech cultural saboteurs.

Tels que l’historiographie de l’art les a enregistrées, l’œuvre de Paul Rebeyrolle et sa carrière (1945-2005) posent question au-delà de cette définition stricte, base factuelle d’une hypothétique notice d’encyclopédie : qu’est-ce qu’un peintre français des IVe et Ve républiques ? Paul Rebeyrolle est connu pour être méconnu, reconnu, toujours, comme un excellent peintre, loué par certains comme l’un des plus importants de la période, en France, mais demeure réduit à la portion congrue de l’histoire de l’art contemporain français, lorsque celle-ci juge bon de le mentionner. Il a pourtant bénéficié d’un succès précoce, dans les années 1950, dans le sillage d’un Bernard Lorjou ou, surtout, d’un Bernard Buffet, avant de subir un désaveu équivalent. Un marchand aussi important qu’Aimé Maeght et des préfaciers aussi renommés que J.-P. Sartre ou M. Foucault n’y auront rien changé. En cela, il est exemplaire de tout un pan de l’art français qui, avec la Ve république et sa politique culturelle, semble avoir été déclassé pour un certain nombre de raisons qu’il reste encore à évaluer : différends esthétiques, mésententes plastiques, dénis hérités de la querelle des abstraits et des figuratifs, non-dits liés à la question de l’engagement politique de l’artiste, imprécisions ou partis-pris critiques et légèreté des commentaires journalistiques friands de poncifs... Autant de malentendus qui ont contribué à brouiller la juste appréciation de son œuvre et l’ont tenu éloigné d’une véritable reconnaissance institutionnelle. / The way they’ve been retained by Art historiography, Paul Rebeyrolle’s work and his carreer (1945-2005) appear to be problematic beyond this strict definition, factual basis for an hypothetical encyclopedia entry : what defines a French painter under the 4th and 5th republics ? Paul Rebeyrolle is well-knowed for being under-estimated, always acknowledged as a great painter, sometimes even praised as one of the most important painters of that period, in France, but still limited to the smallest share of the French history of contemporary art, when this one finds it appropriate to mention it.Yet he benefited of an early success, during the 50’s, in the wake of painters such as Bernard Lorjou and especially Bernard Buffet, before enduring a similar disavowal. An art dealer as important as Aimé Maeght and preface writers as renowned as Jean-Paul Sartre or Michel Foucault didn’t make any difference. Thus, he appears to be paradigmatic of an entire part of French art which, under the 5th republic and its cultural policy, seems to have been downgraded for a certain number of reasons that still needs to be evaluated : aesthetic disagreements, plastic discords, denial inherited from the abstract and figurative painters’ quarrel, unsaid things about the artist’s political commitment, art critics’ vagueness and preconceived opinions, journalistic frivolity fond of clichés... As many misunderstandings that led to interfere with a fair appraisal regarding his work and prevented him from ever getting a real institutional recognition.

Spoken Word poetry in South Africa is understood as a genre of poetry which encompasses elements of textuality, musicality and performance, and is currently produced and frequented predominantly by a young, black public, according to Molebatsi and D’Abdon (2007). By means of ethnography, content analysis, and interviews with thirteen poets, this study demonstrates that the genre is used for expressing the life experiences of artists and their communities (Sole, 2008), as well as narrating social ills and concerns, including political, religious and other social experiences. In this sense, it is argued that Spoken Word may be termed as being a contemporary form of liberation politics (Judge, 1993) that is employed to serve a social function beyond directly political aims. This is made visible through the narratives, styles and identifications that distinguish members of this movement. This study provides a description of the scene in Pretoria and Johannesburg, drawing out various features of the movement. The social and political significance of the movement is presented by emphasising the poets’ perspectives on the Spoken Word movement, and engaging in a thematic content analysis of poems under the themes race and politics, gender and sexuality, and religion. International literature is engaged to demonstrate differences and similarities between South Africa’s Spoken Word scene and that of the USA by consulting works of scholars such as Weber (1999), Bruce & Davis (2000) and Hoffman (2001). It is demonstrated that similar to the genre in the USA, South African Spoken Word stresses performance to be an important distinguisher of this type of poetry. Also, in both contexts this art form has links to identity politics of previously marginalized groups. The study presents a similar finding to D’Abdon’s (2014) argument that the narratives presented in the post-apartheid Spoken Word movement greatly reflect Black Consciousness ideology, yet also importantly stresses that the movement also presents discontinuities with this discourse, allowing for a much broader array of narrative to permeate the performance poetry scene. This study makes an additional contribution to the existing literature through its key findings. Firstly, the study argues that although there has been a significant increase of women into the scene, Spoken Word remains a gendered space. Secondly, this study demonstrates that narratives produced by this movement contribute to experiences of community, but also play an exclusionary role to certain groups. Finally, the study illustrates that poets of the present day Spoken Word scene have begun a move towards commercialisation of the art form, subsequently also aiming for the valuation of African literature. In essence, it is argued that the present day Spoken Word poetry movement has great social and cultural value, and presents great potential of being a vehicle through which political and social consciousness can be both created and sustained. Key words: Spoken Word, poetry, South Africa, oral literature, slam, open mic, post-apartheid, literature, narratives, Black Consciousness, politics, social change, art, liberation poetry, liberation politics, culture, hip-hop, conscious art, resistant political art / Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2015. / Sociology / Unrestricted

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La série Body Techniques (2007) a été réalisée par l’artiste britannique Carey Young dans le cadre d’une résidence offerte par la biennale de Sharjah, aux Émirats Arabes Unis. Les huit photographies de format tableau constituant la série montrent l’artiste qui, portant l’uniforme d’une femme d’affaires, réinterprète huit œuvres célèbres associées à la mouvance de l’art conceptuel. Des paysages singuliers, situés aux abords des villes de Sharjah et Dubaï, servent de toile de fond à ces actions et leur confèrent une aura futuriste. La présente analyse tâche de démontrer que la série est habitée par un paradoxe remettant en question le statut d’art engagé que l’artiste revendique pour son œuvre. Ce paradoxe se manifeste à travers trois axes, autour desquels s’articule notre réflexion : les médiations se glissant entre Body Techniques et les œuvres que la série réinterprète, la déconstruction du « médium » du paysage, et le rôle actif occupé par le dispositif photographique. Cet examen attentif de chacune des occurrences du paradoxe permet de révéler Body Techniques comme une incarnation exemplaire de la double contrainte traversant toute œuvre d’art contemporain engagé : celle permettant aux artistes de critiquer le système auquel ils participent, mais les forçant en retour à participer au système qu’ils critiquent. / British artist Carey Young’s Body Techniques (2007) series was created in the context of a residency at the Sharjah Biennal, in the United Arab Emirates. The eight large-scale photographs of the series depict the artist, dressed in a business woman’s attire, reenacting eight famous works associated with conceptual art. The backdrops to these actions are unusual and futuristic-looking landscapes from in and around the cities of Dubai and Sharjah. This analysis attempts to demonstrate the paradoxical essence of the series, which calls into question the political status that Young claims for her artwork. The paradox unfolds through three axes, which are used to structure this investigation: the varied mediations between Body Techniques and the artworks it is inspired from, the deconstruction of the landscape as “medium”, and the active role played by the photographic apparatus. This detailed examination of each of the paradox’s occurrences serves to reveal Body Techniques as an exemplary embodiment of the double bind presiding over any work of political contemporary art: that which allows artists to criticize the system they participate in, but also constrains them to participate in the system which they criticize.